
Why Torture Doesn’t Work
May 20, 2016 explains why inflicting pain actually impedes efforts to obtain life-saving information.
Shane O’Mara is Professor of Experimental Brain Research and Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator at the Institute of Neuroscience at Trinity College, and the author of Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation.
May 20, 2016 explains why inflicting pain actually impedes efforts to obtain life-saving information.
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